About Henry Hudson Barton
Lived 1830 – 1905 (aged 74–75). Henry Hudson Barton was an astronomer.
Henry Hudson Barton (1830–1905) was an English-born entrepreneur and industrialist who pioneered the use of Garnet as an abrasive. Born in England to Daniel and Hannah Barton, he immigrated to Boston in 1846, where he apprenticed with a jeweler and in the 1850s learned of a large deposit of Adirondack garnet in Gore Mountain (New York).
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Who was Henry Hudson Barton?
british-American Industrialist (1830–1905)
When was Henry Hudson Barton born?
Henry Hudson Barton was born in 1830.
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Henry Hudson Barton died on 20 March 1905.
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Henry Hudson Barton was an astronomer.
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